About Me
My name is Lisa Fitton, PhD, CCC-SLP and I joined the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of South Carolina in 2018 as an Assistant Professor. The overall goal of my work is to disrupt disparities experienced by children and families due to systemic barriers in United States educational systems, to provide access to quality education and educational supports for all children. I currently address this objective through partnering with families, teachers, and fellow researchers to: (1) increase equity in standardized assessment and screening practices, (2) adapt instruction to increase responsiveness to individual differences, and (3) improve the accuracy of research inference through the implementation of high-quality methodology and statistical analysis. This work regularly requires me to consider how power dynamics, marginalization, relationships, and my own positionality influence science. It is an ongoing journey.
My expertise is in quantitative statistics and methodology, bilingualism, and language/literacy development. I completed my Ph.D. with Dr. Carla Wood in the School of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University. My first three years of doctoral work were funded by the Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training grant awarded to Florida State by the Institute of Education Science (IES). My last two years were funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special (OSEP) Education through the Bilingual Oral Language and Literacy Development and Disorders grant. After graduating, I had the opportunity to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Center for Reading Research on the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative project Reach Every Reader, under PIs Dr. Hugh Catts and Dr. Yaacov Petscher.
My expertise is in quantitative statistics and methodology, bilingualism, and language/literacy development. I completed my Ph.D. with Dr. Carla Wood in the School of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University. My first three years of doctoral work were funded by the Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training grant awarded to Florida State by the Institute of Education Science (IES). My last two years were funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special (OSEP) Education through the Bilingual Oral Language and Literacy Development and Disorders grant. After graduating, I had the opportunity to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Center for Reading Research on the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative project Reach Every Reader, under PIs Dr. Hugh Catts and Dr. Yaacov Petscher.
Curriculum Vitae - Updated August 2022
orcid.org/0000-0003-0524-7339You can access any of my papers here. Please do not hesitate to contact me if any of the links or resources are unavailable.
